doesnt bother me too much, i could see vat throwing some easy suspicions on inactives to bait reactions.
i gave him plenty of opportunities to explain that it was just completely random for a bait, and he still stuck to the idea that it came from a genuine place but that he chose to say it to get reactions
but tbh i dont even know how to feel about vat anymore. i still think his post implying he's not confident contributing to theorycrafting was out of character and weird, and i still think his read of skele is suspicious, but at the same time i'm getting deja vu from erik last game, where i feel like he's playing too sloppy to actually be scum. i've given him plenty of opportunity to explain himself, i gave him the opportunity to blame his weird skele read on just being random for the sake of baiting reactions, and ive asked him questions, but he's not taken any of those opportunities and he's just ignoring my questions. surely if he's scum he knows that won't look good and he basically ignored an easy way out of being suspected. so he actually feels kinda town to me now. plus his self-focused 'i dont care about explaining my reads, only you sharing yours' bit felt townie to me, i think maybe because as scum he'd know that'd look bad for refusing to explain his read. all this could be wifom strats but it seems unnecessarily risky so i kinda doubt it
ill do a reads list
alisha - i think they're probs town but planning on becoming scum. i agree with hk that she has a chaotic vibe this game. i get the impression she's not trying to get too invested in it and therefore not being as cautious/worried about jumping too fast into a wrong move as she usually is as town, and i think it's since she's planning on switching alignment since that'd be in character for her. i think if she was scum she'd be trying to imitate being more cautious/concerned than what she is, so i don't think she's scum right now, just that she's planning on betraying town if she can. if alignment switching does turn out to be a thing she's probs gonna be my #1 suspect
vat - i keep switching from slight scum to slight town, right now thinking slight town, reasons above
skele - slight town. i think skele's meta is that when he's scum he's prickly and when he's town he's more playful. he was prickly last game and i almost mentioned it, but then i didnt since i hadn't played with him in a while so i didnt trust the meta anymore, but turns out he was scum, and now this game he doesn't seem prickly at all, so i wonder if the meta still applies. but i think the prickliness probably comes from being nervous about others suspecting him, and so given how he did well last game it could be that the prickliness has gone even if he's scum this time since he's more confident, but for now i slight townread him
hk - neutral-slight town. he's making actual stances so far, but he could've learnt to do that from last game when i accused him of not doing, so i'm not giving it too much credit.
tim - neutral-slight town. right at the start of the game he felt slightly scummy to my gut but that feeling's gone now. his post where i asked him for clarification on his stance on vat felt town but idk why
beta and sessy - im grouping these two together since i have basically the exact same read on them both. they feel townie in their tone of their posts, but their latching onto my vat push felt odd. like, their reasons mentioned that vat scumreading skele was suspicious because skele had barely posted, even after i'd explained that vat didn't suspect skele for anything he said, it was the fact he'd barely posted. i could easily see this just being a miscommunication though, so it doesn't bother me too much, but it did raise my eyebrow. also, beta made this one post where he seemed to be catching up on the game but he only quoted sessy and that seemed an odd coincidence as well. i wonder whether they feel more comfortable speaking to sessy since its their partner. they've only actually directly spoken to sessy so far, except for when they spoke to me but thats since i asked them a question. this feels like such a tiny point but figured i should mention it anyways. if vat does turn out to be scum though then beta and sessy will become strong townreads for me since i don't see them bussing so early on like that.
UNU - neutral. nothing he's said has stood out as indicative of alignment so far.
Fog - neutral. i had a gut town read at the start but that feeling's gone now.
aqua - neutral. he's been very anti-deal-with-the-devil but i could see him doing that just since he realized that town would realize making deals is bad anyway so he may as well take credit for pushing that agenda.
marskid - neutral, same as UNU.
i guess i dont have any actual scumreads anymore
anyone else want to give a reads list?